The Koch Brothers War on the Middle Class

March 31, 2011

When reading about the currentlaborfights taking place around the country, it’s important to remember that this is anything but a fair fight.

Middle class workers with jobs, families to take care of, and bills to pay are up against multi-billion dollar corporations and their extremely wealthy owners who can buy entire PR firms to do the dirty work.

The situation in Wisconsin, where the fight for labor first gained national attention, is in large part the result of the Koch brothers influence over Governor Walker and their support in getting him elected. Despite being based in Kansas, they were the second largest contributor to Governor Walker’s campaign, giving him $43,000.

The Koch funded group “Americans for Prosperity” makes their politics clear. They want to ‘take the unions out at the knees‘ so that working families can no longer afford to campaign.

Not content with union-busting, another one of the Koch Brother’s frontmen may have deceived government officials in order to take $2.7 million dollars in tax-payer money for a NJ governor’s race.